The surgeon’s court appearance comes after Brandon was arrested May 9 and charged with 11 felonies involving child sexual abuse as well as multiple charges related to the production of child pornography.

Stephens, who was arrested at her home in Arizona on May 12, is charged with committing sexual penetration, oral copulation, and sodomy against three children.

The father-of-two surgeon was having affairs with both nurses, and children were abused during some of the sexual encounters, a warrant issued by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department stated.

Watsonville Police began investigating the incident Brandon’s husband found a tape of his wife and Stephens ‘committing graphic sex acts together against the children’ and gave it to authorities, the warrant states.

Brandon, who was the first of the trio to be arrested, confessed to detectives who the second woman in the tape of her was. At the same time, she also gave investigators information about Kohut’s role in the disturbing ring.

The warrant also provided more detail on the alleged affair between Kohut and the 29-year-old Stephens, which is said to have lasted eight years.

The document states the surgeon paid most of the nurses bills, before detailing some of the alleged activities the trio took part in.
The two women would also send him copies of the sex tapes, which allegedly involved children, after filming them.

The alleged abuses took place between January 2016 and May 9, 2017.

Kohut had recently joined Sparks Clinic Neuroscience Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, after he was sacked from his job at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz for ‘making unwanted sexual advances toward female nurses’.

He was also disciplined in 2002 by the state medical board for watching pornography at work. The brain surgeon has since been fired by Sparks Clinic.